Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Getting Firewood Cheap Or Free
Because we live in the city and don’t have trees in the woods to cut down for firewood, we buy our camping firewood at the local lumber yard. They sell a pallet stacked about 3 feet high for $10 or a 4 foot square and 4 foot high box of wood for $15. This is cut off end pieces of lumber. It burns hotter and faster than hardwood logs, but for a campfire they are fine.
Looking in our local classified ads I often see free firewood. You haul or you cut. A lot of people just need to get wood and logs off of their property. Another thing I see for free regularly is wooden pallets. I have cut up and burned quite a few pallets. Most pallets are made of hardwood, so they are a good wood to burn.
Free is my favorite price, but our lumber yard is only about 3 blocks away and the convenience of them loading a pallet in to the back of my cargo van for $10 or $15 outweighs getting free wood by driving all over or cutting pallets up.
Time verses money is often a deciding factor in choosing to buy a product or service or doing it yourself. I enjoy doing things myself, but when I have limited time or it is a hard job, I often prefer to pay someone else to do it.
I love a campfire
